Posts made by evilcabbage

Thus wearing my linguist hat, I am inclined to treat the new boldface as a variant usage of punctuation which, since it is used consistently by users, cannot on any logical grounds be rejected as "wrong."

i think you will find the opposite.

http://www.nysun.com/opinion/conveying-emphasis
https://grantbarrett.com/a-hearty-endorsement-of-shout-quotes-scare-quotes-used-for-emphasis
http://www.macmillandictionaryblog.com/the-emphatic-use-of-quotation-marks

now let's stay on topic.

@roz

i don't want to get into a heated debate about how quotation marks can be used for emphasis with you, but it is one possible way to use them, yes.

eight years ago now. it's been too long and i've become evil and vile.

i still help the new guys.

@bronn

there are certain former players who are known to be twinkish powergamers whose only goal in the game is to get rich and big and strong so they can smash everybody and have gone to great lengths to do this. they are worthy of mocking, because they missed what the point of playing armageddon is all about.

i'm being honest. you might not like it still, you might have grievances still, i can't say for sure what you will feel when you come back. but if you come back with an open mind, i think you will like what you find.

@oryx

we do legitimately want people to come back, give the game another shot. you might still not like it, you might still have grievances, but if you don't give it another try you'll never know.

so give it a shot.

@bronn

you are welcome to get flustered. you can even criticize me, that's fine. i take criticism well enough. will i respond to it? probably not. will i admit to it? yes, as i have. sure, i've mocked former players who were banned from the game. do i do it still?

it depends on who we're talking about. but i do not mock new players to the game. i introduce them to it, i guide them through it, and i've made it a habit to help them in any situation where i'm capable of helping them.

i'm sorry you went through harsh times. i'm sorry you were spurned by people - maybe even by me. i don't know. i don't know you. i have a biting personality, everyone can see that - i've been banned from the gdb and from the game - twice. it's not about "eating a bag of dicks from staff", because i've had staff put pressure on me in a bad way, and i've teetered the line between permanent ban and staying. i managed to stay, and i made something from that.

maybe the negative reviews are real - maybe they're written to be spiteful. maybe there's a semblance of truth in them. sometimes there is. i don't believe all the reviews are fake. but many of those reviews are very old - and they come from a different era of staff than what we currently have.

@twinprince

i made the gesture. i made the invitation. i am not generally a nice person.

shall i post the logs of my own account notes? they aren't good. they aren't staff-bootlicker.

here, this is an example of me:

Rinthel was a believable scumbag who a lot of people had a genuine dislike for just because of actions. Player plays well, but tends to focus a bit too much on coded gains. - 3/22/10
Not the best sportsman. Recieved a very good death with Berdrel, lots of RP and drama. Received kudos for the death. When sent kudos, replied to email with "Meh." - 3/22/10
Multiple desert elves roam the entire world with little regard to any ethos or consideration for interaction within the tribe. Watch for extended abuse. - 6/09/10
SpecAppGuild flag water_elem set - 6/18/10
Stored Zeifriek at player's request. - 6/24/10
Zeifriek stored at staff request. Given a few chances to come to terms with documentation, but gave an oombaal to a non-elf (non-gavram at that). As he did not recognize this was wrong, we decided storage was necessary. - 6/24/10
Don't trust this guy. He's also involved in discussion of the game, metagaming in an OOC medium. If it continues, ban will ensue. - 7/16/10
After some thought, I'm banning the account for a week anyway. They know better, I warned their compatriots that if they continue, I am going to punish them and anyone involved. - 7/16/10
SpecAppGuild flag water_elem set - 3/22/11
Stored Taenir at player's request. - 5/07/11
Based on their tendency to chat with practically anyone via OOC means, I still do not trust them anywhere near a sponsored role or any important role whatsoever. - 5/19/11
SpecAppGuild flag water_elem set - 6/19/11

i've been on the same fence that you were on. i've been mocked publically in the forums by staff, with a warning that people shouldn't celebrate the death of avalise - because i could come to their clan next.

come back as yourself. tell staff you want to play again. i guarantee they aren't going to hold things against you - they haven't held it against me, i've risen up in karma consistently despite my issues from before.

@ganymede

emphasis of the word. would you prefer i use are? that works too. i'll do that.

your experience "might" be that. your experience might also be a guy taking 300 coins from you, bringing you into the byn, and teaching you how to fight, how to survive, and how to roleplay. if this is not your concept of fun, playing in a world that is dangerous, then that is fine. you are welcome to your kind of fun, as i am welcome to mine and others are welcome to theirs.

@twinprince

things change. maybe you should let go, come back, and give it a new spin. you might like what you walk into now.

@kanye-qwest

i am perfectly willing to assist you oocly in game as well.

hi, i'm evilcabbage, resident serial killer of armageddonmud. i am a prolific killer in the game in that in the eight years of playing armageddon i have managed to kill exactly six pcs, all of which had especially good reasons behind it.

i start with that so you understand what kind of a player i am. i do not do things without reason, and generally if your pc dies by my hand, you deserved it. you may not know what you did, but somewhere along the line you made a bad mistake and someone wanted you dead. this... has never happened to a single new player that has ever come to the game.

the community in armageddon that we have right now, barring the unadulterated rage of some people who a) do not play anymore, and b) do not have a feel for the current climate, is incredibly helpful to new players. we don't bend over backwards for them - we don't hand them keys to the castle. but if you come to our discord and you were to ask, "hey, @evilcabbage, can you give me some advice on how to get started", chances are i will answer you and give you some helpful advice.

if you were to, for instance, go, "hey, @evilcabbage, what is a blue robe templar," i would tell you "blue robe templars, addressed as lord or lady templar, are the magick-wielding authorities of the city of allanak and require bowing when they enter an area, and when you approach them to speak to them."

if you went, "hey, @evilcabbage, my pc lives in allanak and i need to know where to buy water", i could tell you where the water sellers are and how to get the knowledge to use them. generally you shouldn't tell me your pc lives in allanak or wherever to begin with, but for very simple things like "how should i react to x robe entering a room", i will be more than happy to tell you the appropriate titles and addresses and what you should do.

why would i do that? because this isn't a game where concealing basic information any citizen of a city would know is considered good. the people who come here, and make the complaint that certain people are staff bootlickers, forget that some of those people they call "bootlickers" were on staffs naughty radar for doing bad things - and improved as players.

here, i'll quote something from hedge:

"They'll lynch you in-game for a minor error that's easy to make, like emoting walking over to the message board to read it - reading is illegal, you see. The message board is right there and newbies fresh off the wagon don't realize it's an OOC construct, because it exists as an object in the room, so they emote reading it and every bored soldier PC, tavern idler and their cousins are leaping at the chance to antagonize them for it."

this does not happen. we do not lynch people for emoting reading it. we ooc politely, "the message board is actually just a gaggle of rumor-mongering people, not a real message board, as reading is illegal for commoners and restricted to important merchant house family members and the highborn (nobility and templarate)".

despite what hedge would tell you, we "are" very welcoming to new players. the welcome might be an introduction to being mugged and murdered, or being abused, or being treated lower than low because you're a commoner and that's a templar, but you are being introduced to the world.

if you make crazy egregious mistakes like punching people with "kill" instead of "hit" in a tavern brawl, yes, you are going to be introduced violently to crime code. you might try to steal from someone, fail, and get caught. you might call someone the wrong title - generally they'll correct you. it might be mean, the way they do it, but they will correct you and 99.9999999999% of the time it does not end in your death unless you revert to insulting said person.

i hope i have cleared some of this stuff up for some of you. i'm here until thursday.